Sequence Highway Survival: I Upgrade Supplies in the Apocalypse-Chapter 262: This place is no longer safe; we must leave quickly.

Although several days had passed since the supplies were gathered in Xining Town, just thinking about everything that happened there still made one's heart palpitate with fear.

Not only were the supplies gathered from Xining Town far from enough to sustain the convoy for a few days, but the anomaly in Xining City alone had already exceeded Chu Che's expectations.

This anomaly was definitely one of the most terrifying ones anyone had ever seen.

Faced with countless, endlessly emerging anomalies that surpassed human imagination, human superhumans seemed to be forever playing catch-up.

Chu Che closed his notebook and let out a deep sigh, as if trying to exhale all the pressure in his heart.

Captain Chu's eyes were filled with exhaustion.

The possibility of humans reclaiming cities again in their current situation was approaching zero infinitely.

Chen Yonggu had said that someone was organizing a plan to retake the cities.

Chu Che was not optimistic about the city reclamation plan.

When humans had technology and resources, they couldn't even hold onto the cities in the face of these anomalies. Now, with just a handful of people, it was even more impossible.

At least not now!!!

The fastest it could happen would require the emergence of the first Sequence 9 among humans.

His understanding of Sequence superpowers was a bit deeper than what everyone thought.

Based on information he had seen before the apocalypse, Sequence superpowers were actually not that simple.

The path of Sequence superpowers was, in fact, the path to becoming a god.

Sequence 9 was a god.

Only when the first Sequence 9 appeared among humans would there be a sliver of possibility to reclaim the cities.

But not all Sequences could walk the path to godhood.

Some Sequences were inherently incomplete and could never reach that step of becoming a god, some couldn't even advance a single step further along the way.

He hadn't mentioned this knowledge to Chen Ye and the others yet, precisely because he was afraid that knowing this information would make them anxious and indecisive.

Sometimes, not knowing makes one more resolute than knowing.

Humans were growing stronger, superhumans were advancing bravely on the path of raising their Sequence levels.

All sorts of Sequences, both imaginable and unimaginable, were also appearing.

But...

The human population was still too small.

Who would have thought that humans, who held an absolute advantage in numbers, would one day fall to such a state.

It had been almost a year since the apocalypse.

Chu Che thought carefully and realized he had actually seen less than two thousand people.

Perhaps over two thousand.

But... that was still too few.

This situation was almost impossible before the apocalypse.

A single residential complex alone had more people than that.

But now, he had only encountered this many people in a whole year.

Before, just on the way to work, he would encounter more people than that.

Chu Che often asked himself, "Is there really no hope for humanity?"

"Where did those anomalies come from?"

"What exactly happened to this world?"

"Why did these anomalies appear?"

"Why..."

One question after another was like unsolvable dead knots, with not a single answer to be found.

Sigh!~~~

If only I were Chen Ye.

That fool only thinks about how to survive every day, about nothing else.

His mind is solely focused on strengthening his own power;other matters simply don't cross his brain.

Fortunately, that guy seems to have changed a bit recently.

It seems... he's gotten a little better.

Hmm... still teachable.

But still very stupid.

No, if we're comparing stupidity, Iron Lion might be even stupider.

I can't sleep, suffering from insomnia every night.

But I've never heard of this guy having insomnia.

Indeed, the stupider you are, the happier you are.

Gathering his scattered thoughts, Chu Che began today's work.

As the pathfinder, the daily work was to sense dangers that could appear at any time.

These dangers referred to those terrifying anomalies that constantly migrated, tracking the scent of living humans.

Those familiar, terrifying, and discomforting auras.

As his Sequence improved, Chu Che became more sensitive to these auras.

Fortunately, those auras showed no unusual movement for now and hadn't detected the living human scent of his convoy.

The current state was one of mutual non-interference.

According to plan, they could still stay here for about two more days.

In a few days, they would need to go find other supply gathering points again.

The supplies they just brought back this time were simply not enough.

Thinking about having to go into the living human exclusion zones to gather supplies again gave Chu Che a headache.

And this continuous, drizzling light rain was extremely annoying.

Chu Che stood up and walked outside, feeling the fresh air hitting his face and the dampness in the air.

This kind of rain was quite nice once in a while.

But if it kept falling endlessly, it became very annoying.

Chu Che slightly closed his eyes, sensing the weather changes within the next twenty-four hours.

It's still raining at noon...

So annoying...

Why is it still raining?

Evening...

The rain gets a bit heavier in the evening.

Keep raining, keep raining, it'd be best if all the rain for the next few days fell at once.

Midnight...

The rain is so heavy...

Wait, this rain...

This damn rain is way too heavy.

Sensing further ahead.

Time reached the limit of the twenty-four-hour sensing.

Chu Che's expression slowly changed.

In his perception, the place where the convoy was currently stationed would have at least thirty centimeters of accumulated water twenty-four hours later.

This...

No, we can't stay in this place, we need to leave quickly.

...

Several days had passed since the supply gathering in Xining City.

The supplies gathered weren't much to begin with.

After bringing them back, they discovered that many of the supplies weren't just expired.

For example, the biscuits found in one household had gotten damp and grown green mold.

Even though everyone now didn't care much about expiration dates anymore, food with green mold really couldn't be eaten.

When Xue Nan threw away these spoiled foods, many survivors cried anxiously.

Also, a lot of the rice had gotten damp.

There were even many black rice weevils inside those rice bags.

Food like this would have been thrown away long ago before the apocalypse, definitely not edible.

But at this time, no one suggested throwing it away.

Those black rice weevils would just be considered protein.

Since everyone had a share in this supply gathering trip, everyone contributed effort.

Even Xu Lina didn't slack off.

After realizing Chen Ye had no interest in her, this woman became very clear about her position.

To survive in the convoy, she still had to rely somewhat on herself.

At least before sitting in the pickup truck's passenger seat, she still had to be self-reliant.

Chen Ye might not have any thoughts about her, but that didn't mean she had given up on her goal.

It must be said, there was a reason this woman succeeded back in the day.

According to the convoy's distribution rules, everyone who contributed effort had the right to receive a share of the supplies.

Therefore, although the supplies this time weren't much, Xue Nan still distributed them based on everyone's contributions.

Even though everyone got some supplies in their hands, no one chose to feast and indulge.

Some people would take two or even three days to finish a single expired biscuit.

Of course, this didn't mean a person only ate one expired biscuit over two or three days.

The biscuit was just a supplement to the pitifully small daily ration.

Even expired biscuits weren't something everyone could get every day.

Most of the survivors were from Iron Lion's convoy.

The supplies they obtained had to be handed over uniformly, then distributed to each person's hands.

Bald Old Li wasn't doing this for the first day.

Therefore, when distributing daily rations to everyone, he would practically count every single grain of rice.

Chen Ye had his own things to do these past few days.

Time passed day by day.

Twenty-four days seemed like more than half a month, but it also passed much faster than imagined.

But for these last three days, Chen Ye wondered if his sense of time had developed some problems.

Waking up in the morning, Chen Ye glanced at the countdown on the truck roof.

There were four days left yesterday.

Today, there were still three days left.

Life was becoming unbearable.

Time was moving way too slowly.

Wonder upgrades were different from ordinary upgrades.

With ordinary upgrades, you could even modify the System's upgrade blueprints.

For example, before the Apocalyptic Pickup Truck became a Wonder, Chen Ye had intervened in the upgrade design during the upgrade process.

But Wonders were different.

Before the upgrade was complete, the information obtained was mostly very limited, only allowing a rough inference of what kind of Wonder one would get.

But if you insisted on intervening, it wasn't impossible.

It's just that what you ended up upgrading into would be uncertain.

For instance, when upgrading the Monster Pickup Truck, Chen Ye didn't dare make any requests to the System, believing it was best to let the System upgrade naturally.

If his requests and designs caused adverse effects on the System's upgrade, he would have nowhere to cry.

Chen Ye's trust in the System was just like the System's trust in him.

Just like how he still clearly owed the System Slaughter Points, yet the System still helped him upgrade the Monster Pickup Truck.